Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review, Price and Specs

Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review - Epson's Stylus pen SX405 is an unobjectionable, though not enormously elegant, inkjet MFP. It has a relatively all-round collection of functions, with a colour display, a PictBridge USB port for printing straight from electronic video cameras, and also ports that could manage CompactFlash, SDHC, MMC, Memory Stick Pro and also xD flash memory card.

Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review, Price and Specs
Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review, Price and Specs

Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review

This Epson Stylus SX405 has optimum print resolution is 5,760 x1,440 dpi and also it has a 1,200 x2,400 dpi scanner. This is just what you would certainly anticipate for an MFP at this price, however, so the actual making a decision aspects are print top quality, rate and also running expenses.

Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review
Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Review

A couple of extremely light tones looked somewhat overexposed versus their white background, however photo high quality is typically outstanding for a four-colour MFP. Picture printing is sluggish, as well as we had to wait over 22 mins for 6 indeterminate 6x4in prints. A 6x4in print expenses around 24p on Epson's Premium Glossy picture paper.

Epson SX405 Specifications

Print rates of merely 4.5 ppm are sluggish contrasted with those of likewise valued Canon and also HP MFPs. Draft content published at a quick 13.6 ppm yet was so light as to be essentially ineffective. Duplicate top quality was much less remarkable, with some banding on both colour as well as mono duplicates.

The 1,200 x2,400 dpi scanner was exceptional, duplicating the colour as well as shading of our images and also papers completely. The precision of our 1,200 dpi scans was additionally dazzling, protecting great information.

Epson Stylus SX405 Printer Price

House inkjet print expenses often be high, yet 9.7 p for a combined colour as well as black A4 web page is high by any type of requirement. This printer price is around £84.99, the SX405 price sets you back even more to run compared to less costly MFPs that make use of incorporated tri-colour cartridges, such as Canon's Pixma MP240 (see Editor's Choice), which has a mixed-colour expense of simply 7.3 p each web page. Also a mono web page on the SX405 sets you back 3p.

The display and also card visitor are helpful if you desire to publish pictures without changing on your COMPUTER. Many residences publish even more records compared to pictures, as well as it's below that the SX405 drops down, with plain print top quality and also high expenses.

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